Toxic environment with poor leadership - Anonymous employee Kizen Employee Review

- Excellent place to learn and grow due to high-ownership culture - Smart, collaborative colleagues - Product is really flexible - Cash compensation & office are great - Encouraged to bring new ideas and take initiative to improve things

- Some growing pains due to recent influx of new hires and people figuring out how to work together - org chart can be unclear - Some benefits lacking, but mostly made up for by pay - flexible product makes GTM positioning difficult

You will get the opportunity to become slave

This was one of the most frustrating places I have ever work. The ceo talked a good game, but employees quickly learned not to trust most of what was being said. Our managers were toxic! We are constantly worried about making mistakes. Support was almost nonexistent and employees were thrown in the deep end. The This is an extremely high pressure tech job by the way , and even small issues could turn into major problems. Work life balance was terrible . Long nights, weeked work, and messages at all hours became normal. Employees were expected to always be available no matter what was going on their personal lives. No respect for boundaries, burnout was common, comparable to a sweatshop. Meanwhile, management acted like it was part of the job. Projects were always all over the place, and expectations changed constantly. Leadership was quick to point out mistakes but rarely stepped in to help solve problems. Being called out in front of others made the workplace tense and uncomfortable. A lot of energy went into avoiding criticism instead of doing good work. The high turnover was impossible to ignore. Good employees kept leaving and new peaople rarely stayed long. There was always another resignation or another person being pushed out. In tead of fixing the problems, management just kept expecting everyone else to work harder. The cycle repeated over and over. This company made it hard to stay motivated because employess were treated as replaceable from the start.